HST 338 Lecture 19: Indian Health & Discuss Leonard Peltier
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Reservation life and traditions: the domesticity of indian life focused on old ways of native culture, this effort became increasingly challenged as families adjusted to contained activities on an estimated 200 reservations. Simultaneously, the federal government placed an allotment system on the reservations that divided them into 160-acre plots of land under the dawes. Not all tribes were affected, but the majority of the indian population: a similar act, the nelsen act, allotted the white earth chippewa reservation underwent allotment via this act of amendments to it in minnesota. Importance of family: the constant factor in indian life has always been the family, but it has been in a different form. Extended family: cousins & close relatives are a part of the immediate orbit of extended families. & relatives & in return identity is rendered to all. Story: the oral tradition continued to be a mainstay of the tribe. Family gathering place remained the central point of daily life.
